Some updates require you to restart your PC and sign in to Windows in order to finish installing the update, which means you might sign in to Windows and find you can’t use your PC until the update is finished. Windows 10 helps prevent this from happening by allowing Windows to use your sign in info to create a special token. This token is used to automatically sign in after a restart, finish setting up your PC, and then lock your PC to help keep your account and personal info safe.

Starting with Windows 10 16251, the advanced Windows Update feature to use your sign-in info to automatically finish setting your device after an update has been extended to regular reboots and shutdowns. When you log in and initiate a reboot or a shutdown through power options available on the Start Menu and various other locations, Windows will automatically setup your account after it’s has booted back up. This will help you sign-in faster and will restore your accessibility applications and any other application that has registered for application restart.

2. Click/tap on Sign-in options on the left side, and turn On (default) or OffUse my sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device and reopen my apps after an update or restart for what you want under Privacy on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3. When finished, you can close Settings if you like.

OPTION TWO

Turn On or Off Use sign-in info to auto finish setting up device and reopen apps after update or restart in Registry Editor

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to do this option.

1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.

2. To Enable Use sign-in info to auto finish setting up device and reopen apps after update or restart for All Users

This is the default setting. This will allow users to change the Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device and reopen my apps after an update or restart setting in Option One and Option Two.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_Automatic_sign-in_after_Windows_Update_reestart.reg

3. To Disable Use sign-in info to auto finish setting up device and reopen apps after update or restart for All Users

This will override and remove the Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device and reopen my apps after an update or restart setting from Option One and Option Two.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_Automatic_sign-in_after_Windows_Update_reestart.reg

4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

Have you found that this works to prevent automatic application restarts, which as of 16251 (as you mention) is part of this? In testing with 16299.19 at least, it does not, at least here. Task Manager is a good test app.

I tried both methods.

Perhaps what they wrote back in the summer pertaining to 16251 no longer applies now, or perhaps it never worked, I'm not sure (speaking just of the application restarts part of this).

It's too bad that they don't have a separate control for it, since I like the idea of WU auto-finishing.

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I wasn't speaking of that but the feature introduced a few months back which restarts certain (registered) applications automatically upon boot (if they were open before restart). Examples: Task Manager, Regedit, all of Office 2016.

A lot of people like this forced feature, but a lot of people don't. I'm halfway convinced that there's some tricky way of stopping it (aside from using shutdown /r), but it's not going to be easy to find.

The reason that I thought it related to the subject of your article is because MS basically said that it did, but that section of their blog post must have just been poorly written.

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Tested 17040 Enterprise, and it appears that despite the absence of the setting in the UI--and without making the Registry change--applications that would start automatically before (e.g. Regedit) no longer do. So, at least for the application restart part of this feature, if not the main part, no changes are needed on Enterprise. Luckily.

Not sure about what people should do if they actually want the app restart feature. I suppose they could try creating OptOut and setting it to 0, even though it's supposed to be a default (UnderARSO doesn't exist in my case).

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